Magic Knight Rayearth — How Japanese Fans React

@m.mishima948545 likes

Given when the original aired, the colors never looked this clean back then, so getting to see it in proper quality is genuinely great. Hearing "Yuzurenai Negai" play was overwhelming too. The voices didn't feel off, which I wasn't expecting.

時代的に、以前のアニメ化では色が綺麗に出なかったこともあって、 綺麗な映像で見れるのは本当に嬉しい。 ゆずれない願いが流れたのも感無量。 声は意外と違和感無かった。

@桃太郎すももたろす29 likes

Sorry to the people criticizing Rayearth, but the Reiwa version is paced the way the original manga actually was. If you don't like that, just go enjoy the old anime quietly in your memories.

レイアース批判してる人には悪いんだけど、令和版は『原作通り』のテンポだから。 それが嫌なら思い出の中で大人しく旧作観ていれば良いです。

@こんそめゴンタ37 likes

Ugh, episode 1 was incredible... I actually cried when "Yuzurenai Negai" started playing...

あーもう、1話から最高だったわ…ゆずれない願いが流れた所で涙が出た…

@文月夏姫25 likes

People call the original "the best" because the original staff and cast were great -- GeGeGe no Kitaro might be the only franchise that actually keeps getting remade well, over and over.

旧作の制作陣と声優陣が良いから「最高！」となるのであって、定期的にリメイクされ続けている作品ってゲゲゲの鬼太郎くらいなのでは……。

@mana166026 likes

What a start. The ending theme turned out to be "Yuzurenai Negai" of all things... got me in the best way, lol.

最高のスタートダッシュだった・・ED曲がまさかの「ゆずれない願い」・・ 良い意味で裏切られたｗｗ

@はるはる-m6i3t22 likes

Apparently from a CLAMP fan's perspective, the old Rayearth anime always felt like "this isn't quite it" in both art and content, so a lot of them never watched it -- and they're the ones going "THIS! This is it!" over the new anime's art instead.

CLAMPファンからすると 旧レイアースは作画も内容も コレジャナイ感が強くて 見てない人が多くて 新アニメの方の作画に これ！！これ！！って なってるらしい

@foutkanon659321 likes

Come to think of it, a lot of the names on the other-world side are actual car model names, right?

そういえば異世界側は車の名前多いんだっけ。

@yomotsu-n3g14 likes

I think the Rayearth remake has plenty of quality, and I'm from the original's real-time generation, too -- the action scene effects are the kind of thing only possible with today's techniques. The theme song, though... it's kind of forgettable, doesn't leave much of an impact.

レイアースリメイクは充分なクオリティだと思うよ 旧作リアルタイム世代だけどさ アクションシーンのエフェクトなんかは今の時代だからできる表現だったし 主題歌はまあ…インパクトが薄くて印象に残らないね

@wizmk3jp12 likes

3:00 — what do you mean "the original"?! If we're talking summoned-to-another-world stories, Tomino was doing that eleven years before Rayearth! Does this guy's smartphone double as a paperweight?!

3:00　何が元祖じゃ！異世界召喚ものならレイアースの11年前に富野がやっとるじゃろガイ！！！こいつの持つスマホは漬物石かよ！！！

@田中伯爵-k4v11 likes

The eye designs really haven't changed much from before, that's true -- but eyes are the core of a character design, so "not much" is exactly what kills it.

確かに目のデザイン、以前とあまり変わってないけど、目はキャラデザの根幹の部分やから、「あまり」が命取りになるんよ。

@science_isunsae6 likes

I got chills the moment they said "Tomā." I'm glad the spells and titles are still in Cephiro-language. I had some doubts after the PV, but they're completely gone now. I'm excited wondering if we'll even get to see the manga's second part animated!

「とまー」の時点で鳥肌立ってしまいました。魔法や役職がセフィーロ語で嬉しい。PV時点では不安もありましたが、一切無くなりました。原作版の2部が観られるのかな…ってワクワクしながら楽しみます！

@桃太郎すももたろす10 likes

The remake is actually pretty well liked among people who read the manga in real time -- myself included, lol. Personally I feel like it's the old anime's fans who skew more toward nostalgia-blindness than anything else...

原作リアタイ勢には結構好評ですよリメイク版は。 まぁかく言う俺もですが😅 個人的には旧作アニメファンは懐古勢というか懐古厨が多い気が……

@ゆうちゃんはウッチャンのママ4 likes

So happy the art style is actually Mokona's! And then "Yuzurenai Negai" plays at the end... my heart's on fire!!

絵柄がモコナさんでめちゃ嬉しい❤そしてラストで流れる譲れない願い……胸熱‼️

@らむね宇宙人3 likes

I cried. You can feel how serious the staff and the cast are about this. No one's saying "it's just old" the way people worried they would before it started — I'm so glad Japanese fans actually understood the good, old-fashioned stuff. I've let go of so many things I loved because they stopped fitting, growing up while crying about it the whole time. And thanks to this, I've got a brand-new treasure in the Reiwa era. Thank you.

泣いた。 運営陣と声優さんの本気 誰も始まる前の「古いだけ🫩」 なんて固定概念言わなくなって、 古き良きを日本人が理解してくれて 本当に良かったぁぁ😭 いつまでも大好きなものや縁達を 型が合わなくなったからって卒業して 沢山手放して、 泣きながら大人になってきた。 お陰様で 令和に新しい宝物達が出来ました😭 ありがとうございます🙇‍♀️

@シオン-e4x58 likes

I don't really think Rayearth is as bad as people are making it out to be... I like the original, original-only plot points and all, but personally I don't think the remake deserves this much criticism either. Honestly the people criticizing it would probably find something to complain about no matter how it was made lol.

レイアース、言う程酷いとは思わないけどな……旧作は旧作でオリジナル展開含め好きだけど、リメイクもそこまで批判するほどのことじゃないと個人的には思う。たぶんこれで批判している人はどんなふうに作っても結局批判する気がｗ